Monday, February 22, 2010

MadLib Monday 12: 2/22/10

Welcome once again to MadLib Monday, the day of playing with words and recognizing books from a MadLibbed passage and cropped photo. What better way to start off your week could there be? Here is the word list for this week's MadLib passage:

place name

adjective

number

verb - past tense

verb - present participle (-ing)

noun - singular

adverb

noun

noun - plural

noun

verb

noun

noun

year

noun - singular

noun

adjective

noun - singular

verb - present participle

adjective

noun - singular

adjective

verb - past tense

noun

verb - present participle

noun

noun - plural

adjective

noun - plural

adjective

verb - past tense

noun - singular

noun - singular

noun - singular

adjective

adjective

noun - singular

As a reminder for getting ready for Wednesday's Weekly Poll post, the poll is open and waiting for you to vote in the left-hand sidebar. This week's question asks you to identify what kind of reader you consider yourself to be--literary, "pop culture", or nonfiction. I'd like to hit 5 votes this week, so please help me reach that goal by voting!

The image that goes along with the passage this week is here:

They used to be called the ___(1)___ girls. That was a(n) ___(2)___ time ago—more than ___(3)___ decades—but just now, as she ___(4)___ in bed ___(5)___ a winter ___(6)___ raging ___(7)___, it seemed like yesterday.

In the past ___(8)___ (unquestionably the worst seven ___(9)___ of her life), she’d lost the ___(10)___ to ___(11)___ herself from the ___(12)___. Too often lately in her ___(13)___ it was ___(14)___; she was a(n) ___(15)___ again, coming of age in the ___(16)___ of a(n) ___(17)___ ___(18)___, ___(19)___ her bike beside her ___(20)___ friend in a(n) ___(21)___ so complete it was like being ___(22)___ .… she ___(23)___ it in vivid ___(24)___: a(n) ___(25)___ ribbon of ___(26)___ bordered on either side by ___(27)___ of ___(28)___ water and ___(29)___ of ___(30)___ grass. Before they ___(31)___, that ___(32)___ seemed to go nowhere at all; it was just a country ___(33)___ named after a(n) ___(34)___ no one had ever seen in this rugged ___(35)___ and ___(36)___ corner of the ___(37)___.

Can you guess which book the image and passage were taken from?

Answer to last week's MadLib Monday: Congrats to Angie, who correctly guessed that last week's book was Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes. The full book cover looks like this:

There are at least two different book covers for this book--this is just the one I have sitting on my shelf.

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